Twenty meters away from my office for the first time of my life I noticed this bookstore this afternoon:



And guess what's in the shop window.


Vienna is full of miracles.

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Naivety sometimes seems to be my second name. There are still a few things I would like to know about Serbia. Let's start with a simple travel guide, Novala thinks and walks into a big - a BIG, B I G - bookstore. Slovenija, Croatia, Dalmatia, Istria. Somewhere well hidden a single copy of: Montenegro. No Serbia.

"Excuse me, madam, do you have any travel guides for Serbia?"
"No."
"Do travel guides for Serbia exist?"
"No."
"Do you still have old travel guides for Yugoslavia?"
"No."
"So I guess I have to write it myself."
"Yes."

Being eleven is difficult enough. It is even more difficult when your parents went away and have left you behind with the grandparents. There is no work in Halovo, the little village in the Serbian mountains 240 km Southeast of Belgrade. A. sees his mum and dad twice a year when the working visa expires. There is no chance for the boy to join them in Austria.

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